Have you ever imagined this world to be happy?? It will be happy when everybody helps everybody without any differences. If I can answer the question of "Why everybody has to help everybody??", then I win.
A very good friend of mine one day came to me and told about a society that he had started a few years back. His society is called as NIN society. The NIN in the society stands for Native land Improvement Network. Well, the Native land here can refer to anything. Your house, your neighbors or your locality, your city, your state, your country or even the world or the universe for that matter. First when I heard this I also thought about it as some NGO, just like most of it in India. But my friend had something else in him. A theory. A philosophy behind it. Certain things made me an integral part of the team.
The theory was so simple. When you look behind the philosophy with which these work, there is not even a myriad of thought about becoming famous. There is just one wish. To make helping contagious. The tag line itself invigorates a feeling of humility. It says "Helping is our duty. Not a service." In a sense when we consider everybody as equal in this world, this tagline induces a sense of responsibility in everybody. It creates a purpose for whatever we do. When you have a purpose in whatever you're doing you'll feel happy for whatever you do.
A person is always connected to this world in one way or the other. The one thing they (we) (now that I've become a part of this good team) stress upon is that there can be only three obstacles that can stop somebody from rendering help to this society. One is money, the other being time and then the last one being career. If I can create a model by pulling all these three factors out of it then I can make people help each other and create a culture rather than making it a duty or a service. That's exactly what we're trying to do. We're just bridging the gap between people who want and the people ready to give. Once this gap is bridged there is no stopping. The culture will set in and it will continue to automatically do it's work. There is no need for us to do anything. But until the culture sets in somebody should do it in the name of something.
Helping being contagious is one thing which when achieved will make this world define a culture across people with different attitude and also unite people among different races and communities. The sense of being responsible comes at the expense of some ego. But NIN aims at including those people as well who are more introverted. Who normally think only about their house and their family.
While I was going through a thought process of how we can achieve this, I came across a video that truly touched my heart. The one that we (NIN) would want to happen.
These are obviously little things that we can normally do in our daily life. A little act of courtesy, a little act of gratitude and a little act of generosity that can change the perspective with which we live our lives everyday. Everyone of us deserve to experience these "moments of perfection". Imagine the whole world filled with perfect moments?? It should be worth re-living.
Our vision is clear though. We will keep helping people, until they get better at it and until helping becomes contagious, cause we believe in it strongly!! :)
-SATZ
